Author Brian Castner received a Bronze Sta r for his service in the Iraq War. In addition to \;Disappointment River\, he is the author of The Long Walk (2012) and Al l the Ways We Kill and Die (2016)\, and the co-editor of the antholog y The Road Ahead (2017). His journalism and essays have appeared in Esquire\, Wired\, Vice\, the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Atlantic\, and other publications.
\nDisappointment River is a historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports reader s back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process o f profound change.
\nThe book retraces the journey of Alexander Mack enzie\, who set off fourteen years before Lewis and Clark to cross the con tinent of North America with a team of voyageurs and Chipewyan guides in a n attempt to find a trade route to the riches of the East. What he found w as a river that he named "Disappointment." Mackenzie died thinking he had failed. He was wrong.
\nCastner transports readers to a world rarely glimpsed in the media\, of tar sands\, thawing permafrost\, remote indige nous villages and\, in the end\, the wide-open Arctic Ocean that could bec ome a far-northern Mississippi of barges and pipelines and oil money. What he reveals is a world that Alexander Mackenzie dreamed of but could never have fully imagined.
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